Russell Brand contemplates the ‘extraordinary masquerade’ of recent events: ‘Going to be a wild ride’

Actor and podcast host Russell Brand weighed in on all the latest unraveling in the Democrat Party as some sort of “extraordinary masquerade.”

Posting on social media and commenting in a video, Brand wondered about the “element of duplicity” behind the extraordinary series of events that led to President Joe Biden suspending his re-election bid and endorsing his vice president as the presumptive nominee.

“Kamala Harris for President? Are we all about to be ‘burdened by what might be,’” Brand wrote on X Sunday after Biden’s announcement.

“I suppose one thing that we know for absolute certain is that the virtue and the morality that undergirds that party is pretty flexible, isn’t it?” Brand said in the video message he posted.

Kamala Harris for President?

Are we all about to be “burdened by what might be”? pic.twitter.com/l9nAKyfoMj

— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) July 21, 2024

“Before the debate, people were somehow trying to maintain the idea that he was cogent and coherent. And the debate, in a sense, represented the pinnacle of that extraordinary lie,” the British actor stated, referring to Biden’s disastrous debate performance that set off the downward spiral for his re-election bid.

“Now we’ve had an assassination attempt, Biden’s resignation, the endorsement of Kamala Harris. Most of us have been watching Kamala Harris, too,” he continued.

“Of course, no claim of senility can be made [for Harris], but this is not a garrulous and easy political figure. This is someone who does not seem at ease around public speaking in particular. It’s extraordinary. We’re witnessing, I think, a kind of almost a contraction of time,” Brand contended.

Joe Biden has endorsed Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination after ending re-election bid.

We’re in a wild world, mate.

— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) July 21, 2024

He went on to suggest viewers check out former President Donald Trump’s “pretty heavy diss” of Harris and her laugh.

“We can be unburdened, all of us, by what might be. This is a real chance for us to let the past be unburdened by the future of what might have been,” he said, mocking remarks by Harris.

“I don’t know what world we’re living in anymore,” Brand said, citing the assassination attempt against the former president and his own experience attending the Republican National Convention last week.

“I’m increasingly open to the idea that this is some extraordinary masquerade,” he remarked.

“And as with all masquerades, you have to be open to the possibility that there’s an element of duplicity and construction beneath it. There’s going to be a wild ride between now and November for all of us,” Brand added.

An NBC poll last month found that Harris had a low 32% approval rating, making her the worst-rated vice president in the past three decades. But another poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research before Biden’s announcement showed that a majority of Democrats believed Harris would do a good job if she stepped in as president.

“I think she’s an ineffective person,” Trump said of Harris earlier this month.

“She was in charge of the border, she’s never been there, she didn’t do a good job, and she hasn’t done a job on a lot of things.”

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